MacDaddy

I've been gone awhile, what's the news about Buxley's, has anything been worked out? MacDaddy

Threads like this are the best type of promotion for this site, increases traffic, gets people talking, and guess what, no one will quit caching because of it. Pick your battles, and take them to the correct arenas. This is a GAME SITE. There are a million places starting outside your door where you can go and exercise your rights. This is (as previously noted) a private site, not government run. There are other caching websites to choose from, so we do have a choice. I laugh, as a Christian, a cacher, a father, at the expenditure of energy here, even my own. We are truly blessed if this is the worst incursion on our "rights". GOD BLESS ALL OF US! MacDaddy

MacDaddy is going to post all of his caches at Navicache, as Buxley requested and will continue to post new ones there ONLY. Until GrSpk gets Buxley back online. Lame guys. very lame, and way too 'corporate'. MacDaddy

Retired U.S. Coast Guard Helicopter Swimmer, EMT, and Local Search team volunteer.

Criminal, not sure if you've seen this. http://www.theflasharchive.com/f/f-203.htm

Vista, Paper, NGTopo's fed to my Vista via MAC OSX Powerbook.

Yea, like someone would actually pick the lock on Criminal's house.. Armed,? duh! Willing to fire at anything picking a lock on his house? you be the judge... Criminal, do you contract for speaking engagements? I gave 20+ years service, proud of 99.8 % of it. Service to our country comes in many forms and degrees. If we don't like existing laws, we have ways to change or ammend them. Not easy to do, but our freedom makes it possible. I wish geocaching had stayed more 'underground', but alas, here we are. Our IPO is out there. What next, the BIG ARTICLE in OUTSIDE Mag? That would be the kiss of death, IMNSHO. In the meantime I will go off trail, downslope against the switchbacks. Stand in the Sea Oats and continue to ask forgiveness, not permission... I just do things that way

On the opposite end of the stuck-in-the-mud-but-all-worked-ok story, I was stationed in Astoria Oregon as a helicopter rescue swimmer with the Coast Guard in the mid 80's. One fall morning I was with a helicopter crew that went out on an overdue, a search and rescue case where people have not returned or are missing. Anyway, we found husband and wife, stuck in the mud, both almost equal distance from where they got out of their small boat on a mud flats and tried to walk to shore. Unfortunately, both had expired from hypothermia. They were both rather large, and probably out of shape and unable to get to the high tide line and probably safety. It was very difficult to extract them from the mud. Being stuck like that can be a very dangerous thing. Hypothermia is a very real killer, with no respect for ignorance. Always a good idea to let someone know where you're headed, and when you can be expected to return. I spent almost 20 years looking for people who hadn't done something like that. OK, off the soap box Rick....

I read the previous posts on the MO caches. Seems like pole vaulting over mouseturds, but I respect everyones opinion. We all have one, and they all smell pretty much the same!

Oh Yea, MacDaddy's gonna pony up the cash for a new one.. For Sale-Garmin Vista.........

Time for the Snoopy Dance! I guess the 4% of the market thing doesn't matter in this case. I had signed a petition a month or so ago, I think it was for NG, but I'm not sure. And to think, I was about to go out and buy a PC laptop just to run my mapping software...Way too scary, whew!! Thanks for the heads up photosaurus.. R. All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

great...now I have to get one of those cameras..way cool idea...someone help me..hobby taking over...please... All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

great...now I have to get one of those cameras..way cool idea...someone help me..hobby taking over...please... All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

great...now I have to get one of those cameras..way cool idea...someone help me..hobby taking over...please... All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

Never assume. It bothers me about his daughter and I hope she gets better. I'll bet the owner of the cache didn't intentionally set it in a tick infested area, but knowing that, might consider a relocation. It couldn't be that difficult to do. The owner shouldn't have deleted the warnings, bad juju there. I think he might post a warning of his own on the cache page, again, easy enough to do. Pride goeth before a fall.. All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

I will be specific to avoid any Mac vs. PC issues.. I would like to run the National Geographic Topo software via Virtual PC 6.0 on my Powerbook, OS X.2. Any experienced Mac users with this experience? Would like to know what Windows version you use, pro's/con's, etc. All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

How do we take something that was so uncomplicated and unfettered and turn it into something so competitive? The amusement factor alone is worth watching threads like this one, you have no idea how these serve as a study in human behaviour. No controls of course, but like a television drama, they are born, struggle for attention, and come to a conclusion in a predictable style and amonut of time. Please, keep it up!! It's great! "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

Here's what you do.. Put them in any cache you want, and e-mail me the coords before you post them on the site, I'll stop by and personally approve each item...yea, that's it! Seriously, I beleive the branded items are fine, and they sound like something I would like to find, and have actually found recently. One cache I found was in sight of the owner's place of business, and original contents were tons of branded items. Compasses, etc. My vote is yes, load it up!! "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

I just finished teaching a search and rscue class in the Denver area, using Garmins, (etrex vista, Garmin12, 12XL) as well as a Magellan. Of course we did some geocaching as part of the class, and under the trees they performed remarkably similar. We found that it really depended on satellite position, and terrain. The other instructor using a Magellan had to wait a tiny bit longer for signal acquisition, and preferred the speed at which I could bring up different functions on the Vista. He also liked the clarity and contrast of the screen, bu he absolutely HATES the screen size! "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

A "friend" of mine, kind'a looks like me, anyway, he ordered two from Ebay. about 5.00 a piece, before shipping.... "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

I still vote to keep it underground, this seems to be part of the appeal for many, as discussed on a previous thread. But as with any activity that rises to attention, soon something else 'new' and 'cool' comes along, and scatters the former into obscurity.. ..back underground. In a discussion with a psychologist friend I have, he divulged that people sometimes seek attention for their activites from the public to acheive some sort of inward approval or maybe justification of what we're doing. Like the 'what GPS'r is the best'discussion. There is a tendency to recommend what WE own, or use, to justify it as our choice, prove it's worthiness to ourselves. ..or maybe I misunderstood him.. That will be 5 cents, please..... "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

Oh man, he's bustin' on your numbers now!! Too bad you probably have a job and responsibilities, or you'd be geocaching 24/7 like him; ...me too, come to think of it!! "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

I spent 30 minutes with my arms in up to my armpits rooting around under a root wad of an old tree, in the rain at 5:30 in the a.m. in Auke Bay Alaska, and had a blast doing it. (lookin' for Panoramic View) Not much luck finding the micro of this multi, but it was worth it when I walked out of the bushes and scared the jeepers out of a jogger coming down the road on her early morning run. I tried to explain what I was doing but she was eager to leave. It's a matter of perspective I guess. We have so few caches up here I'm fairly open to anything short of a procto exam to find one...Can't wait to get to Denver next week.... "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

OK, I read the reference, and it is a bit more complicated than I alluded.. So here it is for yourself.. http://gpsinformation.net/airgps/gpsrfi.htm And this list of who does and doesn't allow them.. http://gpsinformation.net/airgps/airgps.htm "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

Actually it's not illegal, or damaging to any flight control or nav receivers. It's generally just a policy of each particular airline. I'll look up a reference for that and post as soon as I find it, or I KNOW I'll get flamed!! "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."